Click for ye old fail....

  http://www.joneschijoff.com/

     This website is bad. Just plain old bad, maybe even horrible... no purpose for this site, no content other than some random picture of a brain. It moves, and the arrows lead.... o thats right.. straight to a whole buncha nowhere. I think this designer decided he never learned about good design principles and started playing with peoples sense of reality...
p.s.Whos brain is it anyway???????


http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/worst-websites-of-2010-contenders.html
    If clicked into the last fail, then you'll be wondering if it could get worse... well i think it has. This poor man has designed a site that is completely ironic to his 13 3/4 years of claimed education. Typos abound, pictures clumsily scatter, and readibility all run amuck in this literal devils playground of a fail site. Really how did this guy even find the mouse?

That Good Design..

A. The purpose of this website is to advertise and sell a revolutionary kind of furniture that is rising in popularity in crowded cities. A spacesaving and attractie blend of modern innnovation.

B. The intended audience is anyone with money, who is interested in a modern look, and saving a lot of space in their house.

C. I believe this site does an amazing job reaching its intended audience as well as other audiences, for instance i actually ran across their advertisement on bestofyoutube.com.

D. This site will be useful for me in the future as i fully intend to purchase some of this cool furniture for myself.

E. This site uses an easy on the eyes greyish color as the background color for their pages, letting the colorful pictures of their furniture draw the attention of the potential buyer. The main focus is a center slideshow script brandishing their space saving furniture in use.

F. They used it to focus the reader's attention on the product.

Color

     Color is a major tool in the designers arsenal, you can use it to focus a reader's attention to a certain area or object. You can add styles to text to make it visually attractive, add mood setting backgrounds, or perhaps just simply changing up the colors to make your website stand out in the reader's memory.

Learning CSS

http://www.westciv.com/style_master/academy/hands_on_tutorial/index.html

      This site is an online tutorial, aimed at teaching the basics of incorporating css into your website. It is also meant to be compatible with Style Master for Windows, and hand-coding.  This site seems to be a very detailed intro with some hands on experience throughout. I was impressed that they include a section at the end called "Where to now?", that is a list of resources where you can go to further your education on CSS Style Sheets and related matters.


http://www.reencoded.com/2009/08/01/33-online-resources-to-learn-css/

     This site lists all kinds of references and sites for people learning CSS, giving a quick overview of each site listed.  Comments from users list this site as great for beginners and experts alike.